Geithner: No deal ‘without rates going up’ — Washington (CNN) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner drew a line in the sand over taxes in defense of the Obama administration's controversial proposal to avoid the fiscal cliff. — In an interview with CNN's Candy Crowley on “State of the Union …

McCaskill: ‘I Feel Almost Sorry For John Boehner’ — Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said that she feels “almost sorry” for House Speaker John Boehner during an appearance on NBC's “Meet the Press” Sunday, explaining that Boehner is in a tough spot because of the far-right wing of the Republican Party.

Jacob Lew, Low-Key Power Broker — WASHINGTON — When President Obama was locked in painful spending negotiations with House Republicans last spring, his exceedingly meticulous budget director, Jacob J. Lew, went to the Oval Office to propose some complex budget changes.

More Babies, Please — IN the eternally recurring debates about whether some rival great power will knock the United States off its global perch, there has always been one excellent reason to bet on a second American century: We have more babies than the competition.

Obama hits the links with Bill Clinton — JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md.— President Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the golf course on Sunday. — Obama is playing his round at Maryland's Joint Base Andrews and it is the third presidential golf outing here since the Nov. 6 elections …

The Education of Virginia Woolf — Born into the highest stratum of the English intellectual aristocracy, Virginia Woolf—whose set included some of the kingdom's most illustrious families, many of its finest writers and painters, its greatest poet, its most brilliant economist—could be an appalling snob.

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